On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 5:42 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 5:15 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> But please, CBS, if you’re reading this: No Wesley f*cking Crusher! >> > > A number of years ago Wil Wheaton watched TNG episodes from the beginning > and blogged about each one. He said he also cringed at the Wesley Crusher > character. He knew the writers were not thrilled about having to write for > this character which was forced in by the producers and reading between the > lines I surmise that the writers were so pissed off about having a gee-whiz > teenager in the show that they purposely made him a jagoff. > > I had the writer of several Wesley episodes on my podcast. You’re not wrong, except the reason they had to write for the character was because Gene Roddenberry saw himself in the Wesley character, so a writer’s odds of seeing an episode get made increased with the inclusion of those annoying teenage spaceboy scenes
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